The Impact Team has allegedly released information on the site’s 32 million users.
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Notably, Trustify – a service that connects people to vetted private investigators – has launched a site where customers enter an email to see if it was part of the Ashley Madison hack.
“Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men”, tech website Wired quoted The Impact Team as saying in a statement accompanying the online dump.
Avid Life Media, the company behind infidelity website AshleyMadison.com, confirmed on Wednesday that some legitimate data has been stolen from it and published online, but said it has never stored credit card information on its servers.
Security experts said the files appeared to be from Ashley Madison, and that the release could have far-reaching implications.
In an earlier statement, Ashley Madison said they were “actively monitoring and investigating” the situation.
“We will continue to put forth substantial efforts into removing any information unlawfully released to the public, as well as continuing to operate our business”.
“However, having a personal email address linked to an account doesn’t mean that person is really a user of Ashley Madison“. The data also revealed thousands of users had signed up using.gov or.mil email addresses.
The data included login details, email addresses, payment transaction details and encrypted passwords for members of Ashley Madison and Established Men, widely described as a “sugar daddy site”.
Of course if your search doesn’t turn up anything, you can probably breathe a sigh of relief, but like we said, is that really a door you want to be opening? “Now everyone gets to see their data”, the group reportedly wrote in its data dump Tuesday.
AshleyMadison touts itself as the best private affairs site for married individuals and was said to have close to 40 million users when the hack originally took place last month.
It helps connect people seeking to have an extramarital relationship and is owned by company Avid Life Media, set up by former Canadian lawyer Noel Biderman.
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Others contacted by The Telegraph said they had been the victims of identity fraud and would now have to explain to their partners or bosses at work that they were innocent parties.
